My sisters and I have a running list of all the things we think adults should know how to do. We were up to 100 at one point. The list included: balance a checkbook (ok, it’s an old list); change a diaper; change a tire; cook a meal; paint a room; sew on a button; give a eulogy; drive a stick shift, etc.

Whatever that dish is pictured above, it looks nasty. Why would you head an article on food with an image like that?

OMG, I LOVED THIS BOOK.

I believe she considered it a perfectly spontaneous, totally appropriate tribute to just how great she looked—she may have thought it happened for everyone, who knows.

Do not watch West Wing while any of this is going on. I have been binge-watching and now I am ready to either a) kill myself or b) kill everyone else.

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway—don’t ask—and there was a little girl who was about 4 who was seated behind me. She was beautifully behaved, even though she was at least 6 decades younger than the Toddler in Chief.

From a Slate article back in October:

My favorite Super Bowl moment.

Yup. And the highest-ranking official is behaving like a toddler. It’s the Children’s Hour Here in America.

I came here to say that, during the early aughts, I used to get my hair cut by the same guy who (apparently) cut Beyonce’s. Since I was an old white woman even then, I had no idea how big a deal this was until I told my nieces, who immediately went nuts. I took them to the salon on what turned out to be the day after…

This is the kind of thing that stays with children for the rest of their lives. What a great educator.

Personally, I like real estate as an investment. You can see it and even live in it if you have to.

I don’t think they are actually married. He is 32 years older than she is, which just seems ridiculous for a couple, but whatever.

Another great example. Reading your comment above—What in the book pointed towards Holden being a pedophile? All those kids racing through the rye? I guess the rye could be perceived as phallic...;-)

That’s why he needs a chalkboard. :-)

I read that as ‘his little hands.’

Beck was, and is, obsessed with Woodrow Wilson.

I always thought that the Alice in “Alice Blue” referred to Alice in Wonderland since she is traditionally shown wearing a blue dress. What fun to learn it was actually Alice Roosevelt!

You’ve been watching Glenn Beck again, haven’t you?

I am getting ready to move out of the city where I have lived for 25 years, just as a Sephora is being built within walking distance.